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Expansion postponement for normalising pure type systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

ERIK POLL
Affiliation:
Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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Expansion postponement is a tantalisingly simple conjecture about pure type systems which has so far resisted all attempts to prove it for any interesting class of systems. We prove the property for all normalising pure type systems, and discuss the connection with typechecking.

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THEORETICAL PEARL
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press
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